The RAID Array 4100 (RA4100) is an external Fiber Channel storage product that has won numerous awards and industry accolades for outstanding scalability, flexibility and connectivity. Now Compaq has added multi-platform Intel-based server support to the RA4100. The RA4100 utilizes the new "universal" drive carrier and will support a maximum of twelve, 1" Ultra2 hard drives in a single enclosure. With increasing storage growth and investments, customers are demanding easy to manage storage solutions, that simplify deployment and management, and above all, lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The universal drive support on the RA4100 now achieves these benefits by enabling hot-swapping and migration of hard disk drives among the RA4100, StorageWorks Enclosure 4200 family, ProLiant Servers and Alpha servers. Now Compaq customers can buy hard disk drives for their entire enterprise, from departmental servers to the data center, without the confusion of disk and drive tray incompatibilities.Compaq now provides the unparalleled scalability, flexibility and connectivity benefits of the RA4100 to Intel-based servers. When used in an Intel-based server running Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Novell NetWare 5.1, the RA4100 provided high availability, through redundant power supplies, fans, controllers, and host bus adapters. Additionally flexibility is achieved through the use of Fiber Channel protocols and connectivity through a hub-based architecture. When used with a Compaq ProLiant server, the RA4100 also provides unparalleled integration with Compaq Insight Manager, Smart Start and Pre-Failure Warranty support.